New York’s never-ending Medicaid scandals

Last week, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli released an audit identifying at least $513 million in “improper” Medicaid payments — plus another $361 million in “questionable” transactions — over four years.

Good work, Tom — but the true amount is likely well north of that near-$900 million.Consider, that comes to about than $225 million a year. But a New York Times report a decade ago estimated the level of fraud rampant in New York’s Medicaid program at $4 billion to $18 billion a year.